Good news! IHNFA has approved everything in our dossier! We are now among those families that are at the table (so to speak) when a referral is about to be made. The process goes something like this: IHNFA's assignment committee gets together whenever there is a child available for referral, that is, when the child is paper ready to be adopted. The committee looks through the dossiers that they have available, starting with the oldest, to see if there is a match. Say that the child is a 24 month old little boy. Say that the family on the top of the wait list has requested a little boy younger than age 3. Match!! They are offerred that referral, and hopefully accept, and a family is formed!! Say though, that that family had requested a girl. No match, so the committee looks at the next family on the list, and so on, until there is a match. Well, because our dossier is complete and has been approved, we are among those families whose dossiers are brought to the table when there is a referral. So that is some good news. We still don't have any idea when we will get a referral, but this is definite progress.
We are at number #47 on IHNFA's list, so that is quite a jump now that everything in our dossier is approved.